Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and MP for Bagan Lim Guan Eng in Kuala Lumpur on 7 June 2013.

DAP Will Establish “Ubah Networks” Overseas To Reach Out And Articulate The Concerns Of Overseas Malaysians, Appoint DAP Vice-Chair Teresa Kok As Selangor Government Political Liasion Officer, And The 3 Selangor State Government PR Leadership Council Members for DAP Are Tony Pua, Teng Chang Khim And Gobind Singh Deo.

DAP will establish “Ubah Networks” overseas to reach out and articulate the concerns of overseas Malaysians, appoint DAP Vice-Chair Teresa Kok as Selangor Government Political Liasion Officer, and the 3 Selangor State Government PR Leadership Council Members for DAP Are Tony Pua, Teng Chang Khim and Gobind Singh Deo. This was decided at the DAP Central Executive Committee meeting on 5 June 2013.

The meeting focused on the relentless attacks by the Registrar of Society(ROS) in complicity with the BN-controlled media especially New Straits Times and Utusan Malaysia to demonise the DAP with lies of irregularities and illegalities in DAP’s National Congress to set the ground for deregistering the DAP. The DAP CEC unreservedly condemns BN for framing up a lie that no notice was sent to over 700 delegates when all notices were sent.

Even the ROS’ letter of enquiry on failure to send notices referred only to 4 branches with less than 15 delegates, NOT over 700 delegates. And 3 out of the 4 branches had sent delegates to the DAP National Congress in December last year. DAP will remain steadfast to vigorously defend the status of the party in and outside courts following BN’s attempt to win dirty by deregistering the DAP after suffering a comprehensive defeat in the 2013 general elections. 2 BN state candidates in Penang lost their election deposit to DAP for the first time in general election history.

Not only did BN lose to DAP in the 2013 general elections with DAP winning 38 out of the 51 parliamentary seats and 95 out of the 103 seats contested but PR also defeated BN by winning the popular vote for the first time in history with 51% against BN’s 48%. BN is seeking vengeance by trying to illegally deregister the DAP with baseless lies and prosecute PKR, DAP and PAS leaders with frivolous charges in court to disqualify our elected representatives.

The DAP CEC also reaffirms that the 2013 general election results is not a Chinese tsunami but a Malaysian urban tsunami of all races against BN. DAP not only had elected representatives who are Chinese, Indians and Malays but also won in a Malay majority constituencies such as Mentakab with 52% Malays, 40% Chinese , 6% Indian, 2% Others and Raub with 50% Malays, 40% Chinese, 6% Indians, 2% Others.

Clearly for BN leaders to racialise the election results is not only irresponsible and dangerous but shows their true ugly face of extremist racist ideology promoted by Nazi leader Aldolf Hilter and South African apartheid regime.

Ubah Networks

The DAP CEC will also establish Ubah Networks to reach out to the 500,000 Malaysians overseas, especially Singapore, Europe, America, Australia and Asia-Pacific. This Ubah Network will be headed by DAP International Secretary and MP for Batu Gajah V. Sivakumar and the office-bearers will be announced later. The importance of Malaysian overseas has gained importance following the concession by the Election Commission to allow overseas voting at the Malaysian Embassies and High Commission during this general elections.

Unfortunately, the voter turnout was not encouraging. In Great Britain with nearly 80,000 Malaysians, only 1,200 Malaysians voted at the Malaysian High Commission in London. There is much more room to gain support from the 500,000 Malaysians overseas who are eligible to vote but did not vote .

Selangor
The DAP CEC proposes that DAP National Vice-Chair Teresa Kok will hold the same position of Political Liasion Officer to the Selangor state government similar in status and terms to the appointment of PKR Secretary-General Saifudin Nasution. Teresa’s proposed appointment is to ensure parity and that DAP is an equal partner in the PR state government. In that respect, PAS should also have one Political Liasion Officer.

As for the three DAP Selangor state representatives to the Selangor State Government PR Leadership Council to resolve all people-centric issues in the state government, the DAP CEC has appointed Sdr Tony Pua, Sdr Teng Chang Khim and Sdr Gobind Singh to the 10-man council chaired by Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.